Mayor Daley, 1968: ‘… the police are there to preserve disorder’

Saakashvili’s administration quickly realized this was because it had been the cops causing most of the trouble all along. A remnant from the Soviet era, they’d treated the roads as their personal piggy bank, administering their very own brand of expensive justice at will and causing mob-style chaos as they did. When they were taken out of the equation, not even a hint of disorder was left because they had been the disorder.